PUBLIC EVENTS
The Blue Ridge Garden Club sponsors and partners with organizations to offer
community events that support its mission to encourage, promote, and stimulate knowledge and appreciation of gardening nature, and the environment in Lexington, Virginia; Rockbridge County, Virginia; and the State of Virginia.
HISTORIC GARDEN WEEK
Each year, the Blue Ridge Garden Club takes an active role in the Garden Club of Virginia’s (GCV’s) Historic Garden Week, by hosting a tour in the Lexington area during odd-numbered years and assisting another nearby GCV club with its tour during even-numbered years. Across Virginia, Historic Garden Week gives nearly 26,000 visitors an opportunity to see memorable gardens in vibrant springtime color, as well as beautiful homes decorated with over 2,300 flower arrangements created by Garden Club of Virginia members.
Proceeds fund the restoration of Virginia’s public gardens, provide graduate-level research fellowships, and have helped the Garden Club of Virginia make a $500,000 Centennial gift to support projects at Virginia State Parks.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
The Blue Ridge Garden Club’s 2025 Historic Garden Club Tour is scheduled for
Saturday, May 3, 2025, in Lexington, Virginia.
Blue Ridge Garden Club assisted with the 2024 Tour in Staunton, Virginia
Blue Ridge Garden Club members assisted the Augusta Garden Club in hosting its 2024 HGW tour, which featured cottages and stately colonial revivals nearby Staunton, Virginia.
Blue Ridge Garden Club’s 2023 Tour: From Famed Gardens to Secret Doors
Lexington’s 2023 Historic Garden Week tour featured a variety of private properties that displayed the owners’ commitment to preservation, environmentalism, and sustainability. This tour was a combination of historic homes and gardens in close proximity to downtown Lexington. Hosted by the Blue Ridge Garden Club, the tour included the Gardens of Belfield, Mulberry Hill, Stonegate, and 501 South Main Street.
2023 celebrates the 90th anniversary of Historic Garden Week in Virginia. Proceeds from the tour fund the restoration of historic gardens and landscapes in Virginia, as well as two research fellowships in landscape architecture.
Blue Ridge Garden Club assisted with the 2022 Tour in Staunton, Virginia
Blue Ridge Garden Club members assisted the Augusta Garden Club in hosting its 2022 HGW walking tour, which encompassed homes and gardens in nearby Staunton, Virginia.
2021 Tour in Lexington, Virginia:
Through Garden Gates Old and New
On a biennial basis (in odd-numbered years), the Blue Ridge Garden Club hosts an Historic Garden Week tour in our local community — either in downtown Lexington or the surrounding Rockbridge County.
On April 24, 2021, for example, our tour — Through Garden Gates Old and New — featured three private gardens in downtown Lexington, as well as the grounds at historic Thorn Hill just south of town.
Each garden was distinctive, ranging from a compact, soothing space tucked away off Main Street, to an expansive estate with panoramic views.
The next Historic Garden Week Tour in the Lexington area is scheduled for Saturday, April 22, 2023. Additional information will be available as the date gets nearer.
Each year, the Blue Ridge Garden Club partners with fellow members of the local Rockbridge County Council of Garden Clubs to sponsor a plant sale on the Saturday morning preceding Mother’s Day. This annual sale is the only fundraiser for the Council, which supports the hanging baskets of flowers that beautify downtown Lexington.